Adaptive SOVA for 3GPP-LTE Receivers

Author

Blanquez-Casado, F. ; Martin-Vega, F.J. ; Morales-Jimenez, David ; Gomez, Gerardo ; Entrambasaguas, J. Tomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Univ. of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

Volume

18

Issue

6

fYear

2014

fDate

Jun-14

Firstpage

991

Lastpage

994

Abstract

Turbo codes are extensively used in wireless communication systems and have been adopted as the channel coding scheme for next generation cellular standards. The complexity associated with the decoding process is an important issue. In this paper, we propose an adaptive Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm (adSOVA) based turbo decoder which is proved to reduce complexity without experiencing a degradation in error correction performance. The proposed adSOVA is evaluated in a long term evolution (LTE) downlink scenario and compared with the SOVA and the Max-Log-MAP algorithms. Simulation results show that a complexity reduction of 40% can be achieved with respect to the conventional SOVA with no BLock Error Rate (BLER) degradation.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; Viterbi decoding; adaptive codes; channel coding; error correction codes; error statistics; radio receivers; turbo codes; 3GPP-LTE receivers; BLER degradation; LTE downlink scenario; adSOVA; adaptive SOVA; adaptive soft output Viterbi algorithm; block error rate degradation; channel coding scheme; error correction performance; long term evolution; max-log-MAP algorithms; next generation cellular standards; turbo codes; turbo decoder; wireless communication systems; Complexity theory; Decoding; Degradation; Encoding; Error correction; Long Term Evolution; Reliability; Block error rate (BLER); Max-log-maximum a posteriori (MAP); complexity; long term evolution (LTE); soft output viterbi algorithm (SOVA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2014.2316160

Filename

6784314